Writing Your First WordPress Plugin

The WordPress ecosystem gives us many ways to make money. There are opportunities from simple ad-supported blogging to full enterprise-level website development and everything in between.

As we begin to get more comfortable with WordPress from a user perspective, many of us will start getting ideas about how WordPress could be better.

Plugins are the feature that gives us the power to make those improvements to WordPress. Carefully crafted PHP code written and running in the context of the comprehensive WordPress Plugin API allows us to extend or completely change WordPress' functionality to suit our needs and the WordPress Plugin ecosystem allows us to share our ideas with the world as a free or premium product.

Join us on Saturday, June 29th 2019, at Wisma Bandaraya as we take a look at WordPress plugin development. We'll cover the minimum requirements, show a "Hello World"-style example, build something more interesting together.

Bringing your own laptop computer is recommended, but not strictly necessary.